HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 111, 12 May 1936, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Townswomen’s Guild, Members of the Townswomen’s Guild are reminded of the meeting to be held to-morrow afternoon in th? W.D.F.U. rooms, McGruer’s Building. The meeting will commence at 2 p.m. An address on “The Growth of the Government” will be given by the > Rev. J. Paterson, and there will be a musical programme. Ladies’ Auxiliary Y.M.C.A. The monthly meeting of the Ladies’ . Auxiliary Y.M.C.A. was held on May L 6, Mrs. Hair presiding over a good attendance of members. Mesdames Hair and McDougal were elected to 5 the house and finance committee of the Y.M.C.A., Mesdames Rowling, Carpenter and Pollock to the social commit- - toe. Mrs. Hair thanked all members for assisting with the afternoon tea [ on Anzae Day. As Saturday was open--5 ing day this season for the harriers, the ladies were pleased to entertain the Y.M.C.A. anjl visiting barriers and friends to afternoon tea. 4 reminder > was given of the social afternoon arranged by Mrs. Buller to be held on Friday, May 15. ' Distinguished Debutantes. ’ Two granddaughters )f war-lime ’ Prime Ministers are coming out this ■ year, states the London Daily Telegraph. They are Miss Margaret Evans, granddaughter of Mr. Lloyd t George, and Miss Laura Bonham-Car-ter, granddaughter of Lord Oxford. One hundred and thirty-six girls al- ’ ready appear c/i the 1936 register. Dressed in white they will bring in the birthday cake with its 193 candles, at I the Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Ball in May. It is expected to be the only l important ball on private lines for de ’ bin antes. Lady Reading’s daughter, ' Lady Joan Isaacs, will be among the J maiob of honour. The twir. daughters ' of Lady Cc-urtown. Lady Moyra and Lady Cecilia Stopford, will help to • dr.*w in the cake. Lady Moyra Po .- su"by, Lady de Trafford's laughter Ann, the Hon. Ursula . Mills, Lady Camilla Acheson, Lady Peggy Caven-dish-Bentinck, and Ladv Enniskillen’s daughter by her first marriage, Miss Sonia Syers, are other debutantes of the season. Women Explorers. Women are not admitted to the British -Colonial Service on the ground that they are “incapable of coping with conditions in the wilds” (states an English exchange). This statement is being challenged by the increasing numbers of wome»« explorers and scien lists who, frequently only accompanied by natives, have penetrated into the wilds, swamps, and deserts of distant continents and gallantly borne the hardships involved in their work. Among the Anglo-Saxon women whohave taken a prominent part in such explorations is Miss Evelyn Cheesman, a distinguished entomologist, who recently returned to England from an eighteen months’ journey through the mountains and deserts of Papua, which she undertook on behalf of the British Museum. On this trip Miss Cheesman (formerly a curator of insects at the London Zoo) was accompanied only by native guides and carriers; she carried out her task successfully and brought back over 42,900

specimens of insects, frogs and snak